Catcher&#39;s mask.



No. 875,837. PATENTED DEC. 31, 1907. A. '0. PERRY.

GATCHERS MASK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1907.

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CATCI' IERS MASK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31,1907.

Application filed July 20. 1907- Serial No. 384,735-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR C. FERRY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Chicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden andState of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve-.ments in Catchers Masks, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The present invention relates to the construction of the face pad of aeatchers mask, and to the particular means for detachably holding it 'onthe wire frame or cage.

The object of the invention is to construct the face-pad, provided ateach side of the cage whereby the curled hair, or other filling thereof,may be amplified at one placeand lessened at another, the same to bereadily performed by the individual user of the mask, so that the facepads at the opposite inner sides of the mask may be nicely conformed tothe contour of the face for the greatest possible comfort andsatisfaction to the baseball player. And another object is to providefastenings for detachably securing the pad on the wire frame or casewhich are not only greatly'eheaper, but are susceptible of much moreconvenient and speedy manipulation than the detachable fastenings here'-tofore used in the corresponding situation in protective masks.

The invention consists in the particular combination and arrangement ofparts, and

- the construction of certain of the parts, comprised in a catchersmask, as hereinafter described in conjunction With the accompanyingdrawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side view of the mask showing the facepad made, and secured on the wire frame or cage according to thisinvention. Fig. 2 is a partial cross sectional view on a large scale astaken on line 22,Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an edge view of one of the face pads.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all ofthe views.

In the drawings A represents the frame or cage, constructed of heavywire, as commonly and extensively made, such frame comprising at eachside, approximately ver tical, separated, wire members 10 10, supportingin inwardly facing arrangement, the face-pad, one of a pair of such padsbeing represented by the letter B.

The mask is made, as usual, with a forewith a chin piece orwide strap Eat its middle lower portion.

Each face pad B which is to afford a yielding rest for the side of theface,-to have bearing from the temple drawn to the side of thechin,'consists of a long leather case or pouch made with a slittedopening 12, preferably along a longitudinal edge thereof, with rows ofeyeleted holes 13 at its mar ginal portions adjacent said slittedopening, and is provided with a cord 14, engaged through said double rowof holes for lacing, and closing temper'arily or detachably, theopening, said case having a filling of curled hair or like yieldingstuffing material.

The side face pad has at'its outer side, towards its upper and lowerends, two armed metallic bars or buttons 15 each intermediatelypivotally supported by and engaged with the leather of the pad casing,and adapted on being swung to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 toengage over and across the separated wire members 1010 of the skeletonmask, holding the pad firmly in place, (more or less elasticity orspringing of the parts assuring a satisfactory degree of tension) and onbeing swung to the position represented in Fig. 3, the pad is free to beremoved from the cage.

The pad freed from the cage, maybe opened by unlacing the cord, and thefilling may be displaced from one part to another, more filling may beadded at some place or places, or some thereof may be taken out, to makethe pad conform to the contour of'a given ball players face.

The pad being laced and thereby closed, it may most readily be broughtto its place at the inner portion of the cage side and secured byforcing the double armed buttons to their crosswise engagement over thewire members 10, 10.

The double membered buttons are struck up from sheet metal, centrallyperforated, and the arms thereof are somewhat bowed,

or inclined relatively to the central portion;

head pad D at its middleupper portion, and -required duty.

I buttons, intermediately pivotally supported 1. In a catchers mask, thecombination by and engaged with the pad, and adapted to with the cage orframe, of a side face pad havdetachably engage the said separated wireing a longitudinal slit-like opening and means members.

I claim 2-- 5 for detachably closing the same, and means, Signed by meat Springfield, Mass. in pres- 15 i for removably securing the pad tothe cage. ence of two subscribing witnesses.

2. In a catchers mask the combination of ARTHUR C. FERRY. the cage orframe comprising at the side or- Witnesses:

tion separated wire membersof a side ace WM. S. BELLOWS, 10 pad having aplurality of two armed metallic H. L. SPRAGUE.

